Tag: YA horror

  • 5 Random Questions with Katya de Becerra, author of When Ghosts Call Us Home

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Katya de Becerra about When Ghosts Call Us Home, her latest YA horror about a girl who revisits the house where she and her older sister made a cult horror movie several years ago, and where she was last seen before she…

  • ‘A Taste of Darkness’ is out today

    This YA anthology, curated by Amy McCaw and Maria Kuzniar and featuring stories by 13 young adult authors – including me! – has finally arrived, just in time for Halloween. Buy now I’m thrilled to have a story featured in this collection, and one inspired by a legend that’s very close to home for me.…

  • A Taste of Darkness comes out in one month!

    That’s right – it’s almost time for this stunningly chilling YA anthology to hit bookshelves in the UK when it releases 14th September, but there’s still time to preorder it if you’d like to make sure you’re one of the first to get your hands on it. If you’d like to preorder a copy (please…

  • A Taste of Darkness – announcing a new YA horror anthology

    I always love reading short story anthologies. They’re perfect for just dipping into when you have a few spare minutes, and have introduced me to tons of new authors whose longer novels I then go on to read. Which leads me to my exciting news: I’m thrilled to have been asked to contribute a short…

  • 5 Random Questions with J.P. Rose, author of The Haunting of Tyrese Walker

    5 Random Questions with J.P. Rose, author of The Haunting of Tyrese Walker

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed J.P. Rose about her YA debut, The Haunting of Tyrese Walker – a terrifyingly gripping horror story about a boy who goes with his mother to visit their family in Jamaica following the death of Tyrese’s father, and finds long-buried secrets and…

  • 5 Random Questions with Tess James-Mackey, author of Someone Is Watching You

    5 Random Questions with Tess James-Mackey, author of Someone Is Watching You

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Tess James-Mackey about her gripping debut, Someone Is Watching You – a YA thriller set in an abandoned prison, where Nia is goaded by her friends to put herself into increasingly dangerous situations until she finally encounters a danger she really hadn’t…

  • Harrow Lake-inspired art

    A few weeks ago, I was invited for a virtual visit with a class from Korah Collegiate & Vocational School in Canada. The students had been studying Harrow Lake for their class, and so a Q&A session seemed like the perfect way to round off their study. They had a bunch of awesome questions, and…

  • Kat Ellis: My 2022 in Review

    Doing a yearly review post has become a bit of a tradition (I first started it back in 2012 on my old Blogger site, RIP) and it’s a tradition I thought I’d continue as I launch this new site. So, what happened in 2022? On the writing front, foreign editions of Harrow Lake and Wicked…